Craig Oliver's rules of engagement

Craig Oliver ... available through the No 10 switchboard. Photograph: Rex Features

Downing Street's new press chief Craig Oliver is playing hard to get with Westminster hacks, reports the Daily Express Hickey column. Asked politely this week for his mobile number by a senior lobby journalist, Oliver apparently replied: "You can reach me through the switchboard." Ouch. It's only Oliver's first week in charge, but are Westminster writers clamouring for the ghost of Coulson past?